Removal of shadings and shadows from images of scrolls for digital restoration

Abstract

In recent years, digital archives become popular and is open to the public on the Internet. The digital archive is a very effective means, in order to utilize historical documents safely. By exhibiting digitized data on the Internet, degradation of documents can be prevented. By revising digitized data, deterioration of documents can be restored. Scrupulous attention is paid in the photography of the image of the digital archive. In this paper, we remove the shadings which occur because of buckling up with keeping a texture from the scroll picture digital image that shadow is included in. This showed the technique that removed the shadings.